Team Leader Corporate Accounting

Team Leader – Corporate Reporting
Southland | Finance Leadership | Relocation Opportunity

Brief

Our client is a respected regional organisation with a clear mandate to protect and enhance one of New Zealand’s most significant natural environments. With responsibility for long-term environmental stewardship, infrastructure strategy, and community resilience, they operate at the heart of regional decision-making.
An opportunity has arisen for a Chartered Accountant to lead the Corporate Reporting function. This role combines technical depth with strategic influence — ensuring robust statutory reporting, financial integrity, and strong business partnering across the organisation.
This is a career-defining leadership role in a region offering genuine lifestyle advantage.

What’s in it for you

Strategic Impact
Work closely with Executive leadership and elected members, shaping long-term financial strategy and governance outcomes.
Meaningful Complexity
Lead delivery of Long Term Plans, Annual Reports, infrastructure financial planning, and external audit processes within a compliance-driven public sector environment.
Leadership Scope
Manage and develop a capable finance team while strengthening financial capability across the wider organisation.
Lifestyle Relocation Opportunity
Southland offers space, community, and access to some of New Zealand’s most iconic landscapes — without the congestion and cost pressures of larger centres. This is an opportunity to step into a senior leadership role while enjoying genuine work-life balance, shorter commutes, and a high quality of life.
Stability + Professional Growth
Join a values-led organisation with long-term funding certainty, structured performance development, and the opportunity to influence systems and process improvement at scale.
This role will appeal to a technically strong finance professional ready to step into broader leadership influence — without sacrificing lifestyle.

Non-Negotiables

• Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ or equivalent).
• 5+ years’ experience across financial and management reporting.
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring finance professionals.
• Strong statutory reporting and external audit management experience.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability.
• Ability to interpret and apply accounting standards and legislative frameworks.
• Confident stakeholder engagement skills, including at senior leadership level.

Desirables

• Local government or wider public sector experience. Happy to consider private or CA environments with the right motivations.
• Exposure to infrastructure accounting and asset management frameworks.
• Experience contributing to multi-year financial strategies (e.g. Long Term Plans).
• Track record of strengthening internal controls and driving process improvement.
• Understanding of public sector governance environments.

Next Steps

If you are open to relocating for the right senior leadership opportunity — or already based in the lower South Island — we welcome a confidential discussion.
Apply via the link or contact me directly for further information, [email protected].